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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"Then I looked at all things that I had done and the energy I had expended in doing them. "He who does all things with diligence and wariness is able to say this. "It was clear that it was all futile and a vexation of the spirit, [and there is no profit under the sun.]" As if he considers that in comparison with other things, all things are cheap which are under the sun, and are different according to the variety of desires. "And there is no profit under the sun". Christ placed his tabernacle in the sun. …
Bonaventure
He reproves his own curiosity on account of the vanity he discovered, which consists in mutability. He found therefore vanity and affliction in the works which he had done with curiosity, on account of diligent consideration; for which reason he says: "And when I turned to all the works which my hands had made," that is, had diligently considered, according to that word of the Apostle in Galatians 6: "But let each one prove his own work." "And to the labors in which I had sweated in vain," therefore in vain, because he had not done …
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